Saturday, May 23, 2009

Back to Baby

This has been a week of slightly frantic sewing. The funny thingis that it's for no one in particular. It's to replenish my stashof baby gifts that I've been dipping into for people havingspring and summer babies. So I whittled down my fabricstash to make a gift stash. Good reorganizing, eh?This way my closet looks just as overstuffed as beforeso I don't feel like I need to go and buy new fabric. Thesewing table looks awful with all the production, but atleast I'm saving money. Right? Mwuahahahahaha!Oh you've got to love desperate logic.

Finished 5 more nursing covers. Not very exciting,but it was fun sewing straight lines on bigrectangles superfast, production-line style.

Speaking of mass producing, I've succumbed to the oldbibs obsession. Spent the past few evenings cutting out105 bibs. That's not obsessive. What's obsessive is me counting. Too ashamed to take photos. We're going to thein-laws' for the weekend so I'll have some time to cut (andtrim the corners off and count) oh, 210 small squares of velcro.

So that was the making.

I've also been dabbling in a bit of creating. Not the sameas making. Making is comfort. Creating is hare-brained,seat-of-my-pants thrilling. But very time-consuming.And evocative of comments like "bonkers", "needs to seea shrink", "how are the poor children coping?" or "my, my,what might the state of her laundry be?". Would've likedto have finished by now but that seldom happens.So here's a WIP picture:

6 comments:

I wish I could catch your mass production bug. I tend to make something once and then move on to a new project. No consistency whatsoever. And then I have my usual twenty-odd partially-finished projects that I start and then get distracted before completing...

Hello both! Have been bad at responding to comments lately so will try and make up for it this weekend while at the in-laws' and don't have to cook! MA: I don't post about my twenty-odd partially-finished projects (too ashamed) but they are there on my sewing table, mocking me, too. It's so easy for me to get excited about cutting the pieces out and then realizing I've bitten off too much/many to chew.K: yes, am crazy. You're right. I can't keep it a secret anymore. Better for the kids that they find out now. And that WIP is haunting me, gah! Need to finish it by next week or I will waste away. Must eat food.... must get sleep.....

hi there, came by through a link sent to me by lxlb. Love the pretty things you make! Am planning to sew stuff for my baby girl due in Sept but I am just so pressed for time. Seems like any spare time is spent sleeping! Pregnancy is tiring. heh

Hello and Welcome!

I am a gratefully unemployed mom of three girls, all of whom are growing up much too soon! I like piles of warm, fresh laundry, the smell of salt air near the beach where I used to live, making lists, anything round (like heads) and the quiet evenings sitting with the man of the house after the kids are in bed.

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